St. Augustine, Jonathan Edwards, and ‘One Nation, Under God’

What is the agenda of the political left? The American political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain affirmed that it seeks “a thoroughly secularized society, one stripped of any and all public markers and reminders of religion.” Chief Justice William Rehnquist once observed that the Supreme Court “bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life.” Radical secularists and atheists reflecting confusion regarding the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause have repeatedly attempted to remove “In God We Trust” from United States currency. A secular undertow ever pulls Americans away from a founding principle of the American republic affirmed in the Pledge of Allegiance: the United States of America is one nation under God.